aPod Touch Thingy

Last winter I got a new dumb phone.

I broke the dumb phone.
Last summer I got a smart phone.

I am presently using the dumb phone's predecessor, the hardy (if quirky) Motorola W755. It does what I want for the price I want.

The smart phone was from a friend of mine. It was used. I called Verizon and was informed that it would take an enormously expensive (to me) dataplan in order to use the oldest Droid in existence.

Did you know these things have pretty good Wifi support? Apple does. An iPod Touch is basically all of the computing power and sensory equipment of a smart phone without the "phone" aspect.

I hereby coin the term "aPod Touch" to designate a phoneishnessless Android smartphone. It's actually kinda fun to have a pocket-sized Internet-capable computer handy even when my laptop is out of battery. Instead of Googling certain classes of things, I find apps that are specialized in that field (ElectroDroid comes to mind). It's battery lasts around 36 hours, a lifetime no laptop I know even tries to match.

So when you see that I have a smart phone, "Mr. Richy-Rich" is a misappelation. When you see that I have two phones, realize that the "inferior" one is the better one, and that I'm liking abusing the poor "superior" phone as a poor replacement for a laptop.